Ludovico Magnocavallo is a Strategic Cloud Engineer at Google Italy with 17 years of experience spanning cloud strategy, payments architecture, and startup founding. He moved from technical architecture roles at Italy’s largest bank and leading payments processor to customer-facing technical leadership as a Sr. Technical Account Manager and now focuses on strategic cloud initiatives. A pragmatic technologist, he contributes to GoogleCloudPlatform projects (notably improving CI/CD and testing for the cloud-foundation-fabric Terraform landing zones) and has a history of shipping side projects that became acquisitions. His background blends deep systems design with hands-on DevOps and backend work, making him fluent across infrastructure, automation, and operational reliability. Based in Milan, he pairs an academic foundation in architectural planning and humanities teaching experience with an MBA-in-progress, reflecting an unusual mix of technical rigor and cultural breadth. Colleagues rely on him for turning complex enterprise requirements into resilient, production-grade cloud solutions.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), attended, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), attended at MIP-Politecnico Di Milano
Teaching Assistant for prof. Michael Witzel, Sanskrit and Classical Indian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Teaching Assistant for prof. Michael Witzel, Sanskrit and Classical Indian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Harvard University
Doctor, Architectural Planning, 100/100, Doctor, Architectural Planning, 100/100 at Politecnico di Milano
End-to-end modular samples and landing zones toolkit for Terraform on GCP.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
Contributions:73 releases, 1815 reviews, 1176 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ludovico focused on setting up and configuring the CI/CD pipeline for the project, including implementing linting and adding boilerplate checks. They also worked on adding and modifying testing configurations, particularly for the organization environments module. Their contributions improved the project by introducing and fixing code style in the Python tests, and configuring the pipeline for a more robust and reliable testing and deployment process.
Contributions:17 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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